Serious questions need to be asked about the reasons behind today’s (October 7) announcement that large scale redundancies are on the cards at the GKN plant in Yeovil which makes airframes for…Read more…
Cable Street 80: Remembering their actions, living their values
It’s 80 years this week since the Battle of Cable Street, when working-class neighbourhoods united to drive Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists out of the East End. The blackshirts’ planned…Read more…
#WDDW16: unions calling for decent work around the world
Now in its 9th year, World Day for Decent Work (WDDW) is a day set aside by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) for trade unionists and others to reiterate our call not just for jobs…Read more…
‘Out of the blue’ job losses
The threat to 600 manufacturing jobs at OneSubsea, the Leeds oil and gas engineering firm, reinforces the need for a strong industrial strategy to protect such skilled jobs, Unite said yesterday…Read more…
Left all alone
More than two thirds of English councils have cut vital care packages for disabled people since the government scrapped the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in favour of paying local authorities…Read more…
National Work Life Week Scotland Conference 2016
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When profits come before safety
If you are a fan of action movies and disaster movies, there is a very good reason to check out this film. More importantly if you are a safety person this is a film to see – however painful it may…Read more…
Record investment or NHS funding crisis? The stats behind Theresa May’s spending boast
“Let us take this opportunity to show that we, the Conservative Party, truly are the party of the workers. The party of the public servants. The party of the NHS. Because we believe in public service. We believe in investing in and supporting the institutions that make our country great” Thus spoke…Read more…
Seat at the table
Theresa May’s pledge to install worker representatives on company boards could be law “within a year”, according to a new TUC report. The commitment, made during the prime minister’s summer…Read more…
And the con goes on…
Unite warned of a continuing con trick as it responded to prime minister Theresa May’s speech to the Conservative Party conference today (Wednesday October 5). Responding to May’s first…Read more…
Poor odds for workers
Unite will be protesting outside bookmaker William Hill’s shops in London, Birkenhead, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Gloucester and Southampton on Friday (October 7), as part…Read more…
All Aboard Making worker representation on company boards a reality
Speaking today at the Conservative Party Conference, the Prime Minister repeated her commitment to introduce worker representation on company boards. The TUC has just published a new report All Aboard that sets out proposals for making this a reality, …Read more…
Still time to talk plea
About 150 workers at a chemical factory in East Lancashire will take industrial action in a dispute over imposed changes to their terms and conditions. The Unite members including manual…Read more…
Workers’ rights and Brexit: holding the PM to her pledges
Last Friday, I reiterated our key demand of the Government over Brexit: workers must not pay the price for the decision to leave. TUC opinion polling after the referendum showed that whatever people voted for on 23 June, it wasn’t to lose precious rights at work. The TUC and unions – as…Read more…
Why more carrot and less stick can help us to ‘Power Ahead’
The TUC recently published a new policy document, ‘Powering Ahead: How UK industry can match Europe’s environmental leaders’. This document sets out a path to a sustainable industrial strategy, in which ‘sustainable’ describes the economic, social and environmental challenges facing companies,…Read more…
‘Under the banner of community’
As night falls over Whitechapel the young men in black shirts spill into the narrow streets looking for a fight. Members of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, they prowl around, seeking out…Read more…
#SouthernBackOnTrack – Safety spun in numbers
Southern Rail – having seemed to have learnt nothing from their disastrous social media campaign yesterday with #southernbackontrack – have come back for more of a metaphorical kicking….Read more…
Housing crisis solved at #CPC16?
Perhaps not quite yet, I fear. Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government announced a new scheme to support house-building at the Conservative Party Conference yesterday, saying that: “We want to ensure everyone has a safe and secure place to live and that means we’ve got…Read more…
‘In it together’
Unite took to the streets of Birmingham yesterday (October 2) alongside thousands of others from all walks of life to send a clear message to the government that the British people have had enough of…Read more…
Dispute settled
The pay dispute at Menzies Distribution, which had threatened deliveries to newsagents across the UK, has been settled after workers voted to accept an improved offer, Unite said on Friday (September…Read more…